Album Rating: 3.0

math rock generally sucks ass because you probably aren't listening to REAL math rock

Album Rating: 5.0

If all you're listening to is the more twinkly sugary shit that borders on generic Midwest/Revival Emo then yeah Math Rock is gonna suck.

Album Rating: 3.0

Some gross amalgam of instrumental prog and twinkledaddy emo. The co-opting of the label has gone so far that you can find people calling Animals as Leaders math rock online.

twinkledaddy core

Album Rating: 3.0

shuttup core is the best buzzsuffix

Album Rating: 5.0

lmao Animals As Leaders.





tbf you can get way worse with that sort of hyper clean modern Prog Metal but I'd still pass hard on their music.

aal debut is prob the best thing in that "genre"


unless you count sol niger within :^)

Album Rating: 5.0

park said n word

No idea if they count as math rock or not but AAL > this

Album Rating: 4.5

"No idea if they count as math rock or not"



They don't so it's a moot comparison.

They're both wanky instrumental rock bands id say the comparison is uhhh whatever the opposite of moot is

Album Rating: 5.0

If you think everything technical is just in the same homogeneous blob then yeah I guess the comparison of AAL to Hella isn't moot.

tbh I have no idea what to do with the implication that two bands have to be in the same homogenous blob to be comparable

good thread

Album Rating: 3.0

hmm, this album epitomizes the feeling of "that was cool, but I dont really feel like listening to it again" very well



I know the point of this is to be really spastic and irregular, and I usually dig that, but it goes in one ear and out the other. zero sticking power

Album Rating: 3.0

I really like the individual songs but put together the whole thing is such a slurry it can never keep my attention

Album Rating: 3.0

nvm this might be good actually

Album Rating: 4.0

this is exactly how this album goes.

Album Rating: 3.5

truth. good ass album.

Zach Hill can't be human.